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Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1
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Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

09/20/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students  to Dept. of Education

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

09/20/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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160 mn. Fell into Poverty during Pandemic as 10 Wealthiest Men doubled Wealth to $1.5 Trillion (Oxfam)

160 mn. Fell into Poverty during Pandemic as 10 Wealthiest Men doubled Wealth to $1.5 Trillion (Oxfam)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The charitable organization Oxfam reports this week that 160 million people fell into poverty during the past two years of […]

Juan Cole

Islam
Juan Cole’s New Book “Peace Movements in Islam” – Interview by Jadaliya

Juan Cole’s New Book “Peace Movements in Islam” – Interview by Jadaliya

Via: Texts out Now: Jadaliya (Excerpt from the Jadaliya Interview – go to original site for full text.): Jadaliyya (J): What made you edit this […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Taliban 2.0 aren’t so different from the first regime, after all

Taliban 2.0 aren’t so different from the first regime, after all

By Atal Ahmadzai and Faten Ghosn | – The international community is closely monitoring the Taliban, after the group re-seized power in Afghanistan in August […]

The Conversation

nuclear weapons
Only Fools Replay Doomsday: The Cold War, Reborn and Resurgent

Only Fools Replay Doomsday: The Cold War, Reborn and Resurgent

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the early 1960s, at the height of America’s original Cold War with the Soviet Union, my old service branch, the […]

William J. Astore

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Scotland alone to nearly Double all the Offshore Wind in the World with new ScotWind Facilities

Scotland alone to nearly Double all the Offshore Wind in the World with new ScotWind Facilities

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – James Murray at BusinessGreen reports that 17 new massive offshore wind projects have been authorized off Scotland that collectively would […]

Juan Cole

Epidemics
Covid-19 infections soar to record 570,000 new cases in Middle East in past Week

Covid-19 infections soar to record 570,000 new cases in Middle East in past Week

( Al-Bab.com ) – Record numbers of Covid-19 infections have been reported in the Middle East and North Africa this week. Official figures show more […]

Brian Whitaker

Authoritarianism
Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Leading Up to Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show

Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Leading Up to Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show

By Craig Silverman, ProPublica, Craig Timberg, The Washington Post, Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Jeremy B. Merrill, The Washington Post | – Co-published with The Washington […]

ProPublica

African-Americans
Black Americans mostly left behind by Progress since Dr. King’s Death

Black Americans mostly left behind by Progress since Dr. King’s Death

By Sharon Austin | – On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Why MLK would have Launched Nonviolent Disobedience to pass the Freedom to Vote Act

Why MLK would have Launched Nonviolent Disobedience to pass the Freedom to Vote Act

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Everything that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., struggled for is at risk in today’s America, where one of the […]

Juan Cole

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